Altogether a newer version of the Russian Premier League is going to come to the surface as we get to the next season. Lokomotiv Moscow will be coming forward to the season itself as the defending champions but on the same time in June we’re going to get the new emblem and the sponsor for the league. Who that is going to be is still a mystery to be solved. Russia might be hosting the world cup this time but the way they have made sure their leading football league is hosted, they have showed the world once again that this nation has an ample amount of talent and unending thirst to strive and become the best in their region.

But not everything is going to change in the 2018-19 season because 16 teams will be trying their best to get their hands on that cup alongside three new clubs Orenburg, Krylya Sovetov Samara, and Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. They have successfully replaced Anzhi Makhachkala, Tosno and SKA-Khabarovsk who were at the bottom of the table in the previous season and the teams that are now coming into the race look quite stable and their line-ups have a good potential to do the upsets. Another very prominent thing that we always get to see in the Russian Premier League, or we have noticed so far is that we don’t get to see the same names coming up again and again as the winners of the season. Lokomotiv Moscow might be right now making their name into the books but its majorly the city of Moscow that takes the cup home most of the time, be as it may Spartak Moscow or CSKA Moscow.

So we can easily expect the cup to yet again go to the city of Moscow for another time and which team is going to take it, will be the question. The chances of any other name to appear are just as low as 20% because as mentioned earlier there may be the variation among the team but there hasn’t been much variation in the fact that it’s the capital of Russia that makes sure the trophy comes back home.